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Atlantic World Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Hernan Cortes was not supposed to travel from Cuba to ______.

a)

Guatemala

b)

South America

c)

Mexico

d)

Hispanola

2.

Europeans tried to dehumanize which indigenous Caribbean people by calling them cannibals?

a)

Tainos

b)

Maya

c)

Olmecs

d)

Caribs

3.

Which of the following best describes chinampa agriculture?

a)

Cutting down the brush to grow crops

b)

Creating raised beds in swampy areas to grow crops

c)

Creating raised beds near the ocean to grow crops

d)

Slashing and burning brush to grow crops

4.

Which society is referred to as the 'mother culture'?

a)

Olmecs

b)

Maya

c)

Caribs

d)

Aztecs

5.

This early American civilization was based on an alliance of three different societies. The Tenochtitlan, Tlacopan, and_____.

a)

Tikal

b)

Mexica

c)

Copan

d)

Texcoco

6.

Which society has more 'traditional' gender/labor roles?

a)

Maya

b)

Inca

c)

Taino

d)

Aztec

7.

True or False: These early American civilizations were monothesistic cultures.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

We learned that the Inca had a specific rule about their social hierarchy. What was it?

a)

The emperor only had religious advisors

b)

Speakers of Quechua were given privileged status in the empire

c)

Only two major groups in society, elites and commoners

d)

Power was passed down from the female side of the family

9.

Who was responsible for destroying the Inca?

a)

Pizzaro

b)

Cortes

c)

Ponce de Leon

d)

King Henry V

10.

How did the Inca soldify its power over new people?

a)

Execute the local leader

b)

Leave the military behind to enforce the new rules of the empire

c)

Built religious temples to remind people who is in charge

d)

Destroyed all structures and forced the new population to rebuild

11.

The Florentine Codex is what type of document?

a)

A journal

b)

A Biography

c)

A map

d)

An encyclopedia

12.

Which is NOT a reason for European exploration across the Atlantic ocean?

a)

God

b)

Spices

c)

Gold

d)

Glory

13.

What was the name of the mountain that the Spanish changed because it mined all the silver out of it?

a)

Potosi

b)

Tenochtitlan

c)

El Mirador

d)

Inca

14.

True or False: Herman Cortes was a Portuguese conquistador.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Moctezuma and Atahulla were both ______?

a)

Spanish princes

b)

Spanish conquistadors

c)

Indigenous leaders

d)

Christians